look, if you're using the terminal and your distro shows a lot of hacker-y text on screen when updating, then yeah of course there's a chance that less tech-literate people are gonna think you're hacking into the mainframe... still the story is definitely exaggerated
> look at the arch linux news before updating (like a responsible arch linux user)
> run an update for the os through the command line
>
sudo pacman -Syu && notify-send "Finished updating!"> minimize the terminal emulator
> wait until update is finished
> close the terminal emulator
> mfw nothing crazy happens
look, if you're using the terminal and your distro shows a lot of hacker-y text on screen when updating, then yeah of course there's a chance that less tech-literate people are gonna think you're hacking into the mainframe... still the story is definitely exaggerated